Family life has a lot of moving parts. The notification bell in the top bar gathers the things that need you into one calm place, with a soft orange dot when there's something unread. Tap it to open your notifications.
What the bell shows
- Tasks coming due — a to-do that's yours, with a due date: in the morning for all-day tasks, or about 30 minutes before for tasks with a time. If it slips past due, it's gently flagged as overdue.
- Tasks assigned to you — when a family member gives you something to do (and for your own no-deadline reminders, so they’re never lost).
- Events coming up — activities you're part of — whether you're going, dropping off, or picking up — around their reminder time.
- What's new — each beanies.family update now lives in the bell instead of popping up over your screen.
- Today's tip — one small tip a day from the beanies, with a 💡 icon. Tap to read the full tip and try the feature it points to.
Reading, clearing, and re-opening
Tap the bell to see your list, grouped by day.
Tap any notification to open its details — that marks it read.
From the details, tap Open to jump straight to the task or event, or Mark unread if you want to come back to it.
Tap Mark all read to clear everything at once — the dot disappears everywhere.
A daily tip from the beanies
Once a day, the beanies drop a small tip in the bell: a feature you might've missed, a habit that helps, a corner of the app worth exploring. Each tip has a 💡 icon and a try it → link to the spot it talks about.
Tips stay in the bell after you've read them, so you can always scroll back to one you liked. If you'd rather not see new ones, turn them off in Settings → Appearance → Daily Tips. The tips already in your bell stay there; only future ones stop appearing.
Tips are per-device: you may see a different tip on your phone than on your laptop. That keeps them light, just a small daily nudge wherever you happen to open the app.
Reading a notification on one device clears the dot on your others — your read-state travels with your family file. (Your family already shares the underlying tasks and events; only which ones you've read is added.)
For now, notifications appear while the app is open (and catch up the next time you open it). Push notifications — the kind that reach you when the app is closed — are coming in a later update.